Reviews & Comments
Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, NM
Village with an identity problem -
7/28/2012'Los Ranchos' used to be a non-descript, sleepy little farming community, but over the past couple of decades has lowered the bar and sucked up to the land developers. The Village maintains it is an 'agricultural and farming' area, but the best farm land in New Mexico (right along the Rio Grande) has been eagerly converted to mcmansions and useless landscaping. The town continues to have giant cottonwoods and cooler summer temperatures than the surrounding Albuquerque making it physically attractive, but the social expectations are over the top. We moved here in 1990 and built up high-end barns and outbuildings to support out organic farm, but now the neighbors (new since we got here) are complaining about the appearance of farm related equipment, the manure we use for fortifying the soil (have done that since 1990), and a host of other 'farming and agricultural' activities. The traditional mexican heritage is being bought out by developer - the same heritage that made this community habitable since the 1800s. Los Ranchos is nothing more than a suburb of Albuquerque and, politically, one cannot tell the difference.
We are ready to relocate away from this repressive, socially inept cute little town.